1940S HOME MOVIE VISIT TO NEW ORLEANS

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1940s

Description: This 1940s silent home movie shows several landmarks in New Orleans and the American South, including Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Civil War monuments. The movie begins with the Margaret Monument in New Orleans, a statue of Margaret Haughery, an Irish woman who cared for orphaned Irish children (0:09). Mansions in the New Orleans Garden District (0:23). Loyola University New Orleans (0:31). Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church (0:39). Ibis, seagulls, and geese at a pond. Notre Dame Seminary Graduate Theology School (1:42). Gangplank on a white riverboat; the view turns blurry (2:01). Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in the French Quarter (2:29). Duelling Oaks sign (2:38), the site of famous former city duels. Palm trees along Canal Street (2:47). New Orleans Airport (3:04). Metairie Cemetery (3:22). Huey P. Long Memorial Residence (3:59). The film switches to black-and-white footage of people in the back of a truck cart, with a sign: “This truck free, Visiting photographers, Mayor Robert S. Maestri” (4:16). Napoleon House in the French Quarter (4:43). St. Louis Cathedral, dedicated 1794, one of the oldest American churches (4:47). A sign for “Pirates’ Alley,” also known as Orleans Alley South (4:52). Morning Call, “New Orleans’ most famous coffee drinking place” (5:14). The former home of Eugene Fields and a gift shop sign (5:29). Aunt Sally’s Original Creole Pralines stand (5:39). Benjamin Franklin monument (5:48). The film switches to color; a woman stands with her feet in the water (6:28). Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi (7:09). Jefferson Davis monument commemorating the birthplace of the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War (7:17). Mississippi State Memorial (7:21) and Illinois Memorial (7:26) in Vicksburg. Old grenades in a field, with a sign that says, “Do Not Handle—Dangerous” (7:43). U.S. Union Trench, site of Ransom’s Brigade (7:51). A memorial commemorating the Siege of Vicksburg during the Civil War, with a quote beginning, “Here brothers fought for their principles” (8:20). A cannon on a hillside (8:56). Sign for Rock City in Lookout Mountain, Georgia (8:59). Mushroom Rock in Rock City Gardens (9:06). A woman next to an Enchanted Trail sign (9:16). Swing-a-Long Bridge (9:24). Fat Man Squeeze (9:52). 1000 Ton Balance Rock (10:07). Moonshine Still (10:13), with gnomes. North entrance to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in north Georgia and southern Tennessee, commemorating sites of the Civil War Battle of Chickamauga and Siege of Chattanooga (10:27). Point Park in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee (10:35). Andrews Raiders Historical Marker, in Chattanooga National Cemetery, with a locomotive (11:12). It was dedicated to a mission to disturb Confederate supply lines. John Ross House, a historical landmark in Rossville, Georgia (11:19). A plaque to the U.S. Infantry 3rd Brigade (11:25). The Visitor Center in the national park (11:32). A Confederate States of America (CSA) plaque, dedicated to Headquarters, Army of Tennessee, Braxton Bragg, Commander, November 23-25, 1863 (11:50). A plaque for Sheridan’s Division Granger’s Corps (11:54).